Blanket Backdrop Identified!
Thank you to everyone who wrote in about the beautiful bed covering featured in my April columns. (If you missed reading them, they're posted below.) My public library is a wonderful place for books, but the staff members are also great resources. One of the circulation librarians...
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Church Clues
Jan Oliver thinks this picture of an older man and a younger woman shows her great-grandfather John Henry Smith (born 1861) and his daughter Alice (life dates 1888 to 1962). Oliver knows Smith was alive in 1921, but she can’t find mention of him after that year. Will this photo...
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Making Dates
Questions from readers of this Identifying Family Photographs column range from "which wife is it?" to the more-general "who is it?" A date for this photo would go a long way to help Kellee Eubanks-Stevenson determine the woman's name. Is it her great-great-grandmother, who lived from 1842...
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You’re Kidding
Kathy Culbert owns this carte de visite captioned "Dora and Frank" and is having trouble dating it. Children's clothing can be confusing. Mothers often dressed boys like girls until they were school age, but you can tell the difference by their hair. Girls had center parts; boys had side parts...
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What the law says about reproducing and using old photos.
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Tracking yesterday's fashion trends could solve your picture puzzles. We'll show you how to analyze your ancestors' dress for successful photo identification.
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